OT: housekeeper deep cleaning

I hate cleaning but I love a clean house. I tried a house cleaning service during my last pregnancy but they were not very good and they were expensive so I stops it pretty quickly. I'm giving it another go, but this time I'm using a person that was recommended through an acquaintance rather than a company. She comes highly recommended and is cheaper than a service, however unfortunately I wont be able to meet her before she comes to clean our house. My DH (dear husband) will only get to meet with her for a little bit before he leaves for work - showing her around the house and telling her what exactly I expect in a deep cleaning. I feel like I need to be really specific about what I want 1) because I wont be meeting her in person and 2) because DH (dear husband) is the one to relay the information to her. Please help me! What do you consider a deep cleaning? What would you want a housekeeper to do?

Comments (10)

Definitely clean the windows especially in the room baby will be mostly in.. clean floors, dust and disinfect , I was thinking of getting a swifter and cleaning the walls sounds weird but I heard there's a lot of dust and allergy build up on them

This one is $15per hour which I think is acceptable as long as she's good. The last service I went with was $120 for like two hours and I could still see dusty bunnies when they were done lol. It's hard for me to justify a cleaner however I'm not a splurging kind of person and I would love to have a really clean home... and not have to clean it myself lol.

This one is $15per hour which I think is acceptable as long as she's good...

Posted
11/27/2016

This one is $15per hour which I think is acceptable as long as she's good. The last service I went with was $120 for like two hours and I could still see dusty bunnies when they were done lol. It's hard for me to justify a cleaner however I'm not a splurging kind of person and I would love to have a really clean home... and not have to clean it myself lol.

Because I'm thinking about hiring someone too, before it was just a small house of 2 bedrooms and now we have a 4 bedroom home, 2 floors and every single place in this house is occupied by the kids, husband and I or our dogs lol. So I'll need to extra help.

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